Method And Apparatus For Preprocessing And Storing Image Attributes For The Accelerated Display Of Medical Images In Medical Applications

A client apparatus for preprocessing and storing image attributes for the accelerated display of medical images in medical applications, the client apparatus being capable of communicating with at least one server apparatus, comprising:

• means for receiving image attributes assigned on the server side to a medical image, the image attributes being characteristic of a medical application which generates a specific visual display of the medical image;
• means for adjusting the medical image in accordance with the image attributes;
• means for storing the adjusted medical image together with the image attributes in a memory or a database;
• means for calling up a further medical application or the medical application, which requires a visual display of the medical image;
• means for checking whether the required image attributes for the visual display correspond to the stored image attributes;
• means for calling up the stored, modified medical image upon the checking indicating a similar or identical correspondence of the image attributes;
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• means for the visually displaying the called up medical image.